My Acer laptop computer crashed on me and now that it's running again I have spent a month uploading music from my cd library onto the Windows 11 Media player in their original format. How should I or can I save my music so I have a backup and can make some space. I still have cds to upload and already have about 11.2 GB. I don't know much about computers. Can anyone help me. Do I need to spend alot of money on flash drives. I hope not. A friend said I could do it on a dvd disc. That doesn't make sense to me and I would like advice from someone computer savvy. I only have this laptop.

Every time you ripped a music into your computer from a original Audio CD, Windows Media Player creates a folder for that particular CD. In most cases these folders will be in "My Music". To back those up it's better that you use a external hard drive or if your computer has two partitions e.g. D:\ E:\ or F:\ then you may backup to your 2nd drive instead. Burning it to a DVD disc is another way of backing it up, but it takes time as you'll have to organize the contents so that none of them will exceed the 4.35GB limit or else it will be too large for a single layer DVD.
Double layer is aprox: 7.xxGB but their a lot more expensive than single layers.

Also if you ripped your music and have decided to add copy protection, then you will also have to backup that license certificate otherwise your music will not play.

If you have backed up your music to a 2nd partition and verified and then you decided to delete the music from its original location (because you want to have some space back). When you play those music, windows media player may give you an error message saying the music your trying to play is not found. When that happens, just relocated to where you backup to and then it should start playing.

Every time you ripped a music into your computer from a original Audio CD, Windows Media Player creates a folder for that particular CD. In most cases these folders will be in "My Music". To back those up it's better that you use a external hard drive or if your computer has two partitions e.g. D:\ E:\ or F:\ then you may backup to your 2nd drive instead. Burning it to a DVD disc is another way of backing it up, but it takes time as you'll have to organize the contents so that none of them will exceed the 4.35GB limit or else it will be too large for a single layer DVD.
Double layer is aprox: 7.xxGB but their a lot more expensive than single layers.

Also if you ripped your music and have decided to add copy protection, then you will also have to backup that license certificate otherwise your music will not play.

If you have backed up your music to a 2nd partition and verified and then you decided to delete the music from its original location (because you want to have some space back). When you play those music, windows media player may give you an error message saying the music your trying to play is not found. When that happens, just relocated to where you backup to and then it should start playing.

Thankyou, I will try a couple dual layer dvds. I just wasn't sure if the quality would be the same. My music is in a folder in the c drive. I have a d drive also and then e is for the removable disc. I guess I will remove some of the complete songs on a cd that I don't listen to that often after I back them up. I am disappointed that I lost some music I cannot get back that I had been given or lost. For instance alot of my Casting Crowns and MercyMe music and a Michael W. Smith cd. Thankyou for your advice Amoeba22.

Also I really liked the previous Windows player better than this Windows 11. I have no way to count how many songs I have because everythingis listed by tracks. Do you know how to display them so I have consecutive numbers letting me know how many songs I have or Do you know how I can go back to Windows Player 10? You seem to be up on all this and I so appreciate your help.....Thankyou Sidelle

Once you've rolled back to WMP 10 (my preferred version also), be sure to go to Windows Updates and run a scan. The update for Windows Media Player 11 will be on the list. Check the box that says "Do not show this update again.", lest you forget and reinstall WMP 11 by mistake.

I've also passed on all DRM (Digital Rights Management) updates. Although all my music is legal, I don't want Big Brother Bill digging through my files.

Once you've rolled back to WMP 10 (my preferred version also), be sure to go to Windows Updates and run a scan. The update for Windows Media Player 11 will be on the list. Check the box that says "Do not show this update again.", lest you forget and reinstall WMP 11 by mistake.

I've also passed on all DRM (Digital Rights Management) updates. Although all my music is legal, I don't want Big Brother Bill digging through my files.

Carl

Windows Media Player is not part of Windows critical updates. It's optional which means if you still have WMP10, update will not force you to install WMP11.